BILL NUMBER: SB 573	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alarcon

                        FEBRUARY 23, 1999

   An act to add Article 9.5 (commencing with Section 44620) to
Chapter 3 of Part 25 of the Education Code, relating to teachers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 573, as introduced, Alarcon.  Teachers:  hard to staff schools.

   Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to
employ for positions requiring certification qualifications only
persons who possess the qualifications for those positions.
   Existing law provides that, after an employee of a school district
having an average daily attendance of 250 or more completes 2
consecutive years in a position requiring certification
qualifications and if that employee is reelected for the next
succeeding school year to a position requiring certification
qualifications, the employee is to be classified as and becomes a
permanent employee of the district.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature in subsequent
amendments to its provisions to establish an incentive program for
teachers with permanent status who are assigned to the hardest to
staff schools by providing monetary incentives and additional
training at state expense to these teachers.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Article 9.5 (commencing with Section 44620) is added to
Chapter 3 of Part 25 of the Education Code, to read:

      Article 9.5.  Incentive Program for Teachers in Hard to Staff
Schools

   44620.  It is the intent of the Legislature in subsequent
amendments to the act adding this section to establish an incentive
program for teachers with permanent status who are assigned to the
hardest to staff schools by providing monetary incentives and
additional training at state expense to these teachers.